Big Tick Audio has released version 1.6 beta 3 of Zen, the universal presets manager for Windows and Mac.

I’ve just released Zen 1.6 public beta 3. Here is the mandatory changelog. The first point marks a turning point in the history of releases, lifting up one of the most complained-about limitations of Zen.

Changes in Zen v1.6 beta 3

All users can now activate any plugin locally. For designers, the first preset uploaded for a local plugin makes this plugin public.

Replaced “hidden” and “favorites” tags by icons.

Add presets comments to the ZenCore engine.

Better design for the presets sort option.

Add shopping cart icon.

Zen will now silently ignore duplicate warnings happening within a few ms.

Add mousewheel on preset name to scroll through presets.

Fixed crash when trying to apply a tag without first selecting a preset.

Fixed bug when using full-text with ‘ character.

Fixed (for the last time:)) the problem with Zen not exiting properly.